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When considering an embedded scripting language, the most common choice is Lua, though there are many alternatives. One of those is Squirrel, a Lua-like language with a C-like syntax. Based on its history, one might dismiss Squirrel as simply “Lua with C syntax” or assume that its inclusion of classes and other features makes it heavy compared to Lua, perhaps the work of a spiteful C++ programmer who doesn’t like Lua. In actuality, not only is Squirrel light and performant, it addresses memory performance issues in Lua as well as several inconsistencies in the language, and it supplies features that must be hand-built in Lua.